Art is more powerful if produced outside the art market and in the context of politics. Artists working for propaganda are truer to art than those who produce for the individual consumer. Every ideology whether political or religious has a vision or image behind it, whereas the art market does not. It merely circulates images.

Propaganda artwork is simultaneously an affirmation and a critique of an ideological system because it turns the vision of the future into something tangible and secular. By presenting a utopian power balance that politics fails to achieve, modern and contemporary art both affirms and critiques the democratic system, similarly to the functions of ideological art.